A couple of months into painting with acrylics ~ I love this medium. I’ve really enjoyed learning the nuances and technical mechanics. While only at the beginning of building my knowledge base and comfort level, acrylics is becoming a paint of choice.

Bowl of Plums, an acrylic painting (8×10) was painted on a thickly coated gessoed hardboard using primarily liquitex acrylic paints. A wonderful photographer on pmp did a great series of plums and one photo caught my attention, so I used it to construct and base my painting off of. I love still life’s and this one was perfect to work up in acrylics – offering rich and deeply colored plums against a substantial glass bowl.

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Thank you so visiting my blog, I really appreciate your comment. This particular piece was done on a gessoed prepared hardboard and by thickly applying the gesso I achieved a nice texture for the painting. Appreciate your compliment – means a lot. Best wishes and hope you are enjoying painting again~

Hello Clemens, thank you for your kind feedback – always appreciated! The only experience I have in oil paints is with oil pastels, I’ve not taken the opportunity to try out oils. My start with brushes was with acrylics and I have to admit it’s been a lot of fun. Perhaps one day I’ll try my hand painting with oil paints, you never know. Thanks again and nice to meet you.

Doing OK. Another trick that works for me is to apply a little glaze to the wet stuff like droplets on a flower or wine bottle. The “shiny” against flat paints makes a wet look. But I would not do that with an ocean or river as part of a painting. Sometimes the glaze may enhance edges of things like flower petals and also create effect of light affecting objects in many ways.

My wonderful friend, so good to see you. Very sorry for being more than late with my response Marina, I continue to be distracted, but my thoughts always come back to blogging and wondering how everyone is. Thank you for always showing an interest in my work and being so generous and kind in your comment. Just makes my day. I hope you are well, feeling better and not being quite as hectic as you’ve been. I also hope that your writing, singing and creativity has been off the charts over these past couple of months. I’m hoping to be able to catchup one of these days. Take care and have a beautiful Christmas.

Hello Marina – I hope to see your creative and beautiful works more often in 2018! I missed “happy new years” to you, but many wishes coming your way for a wonderful and productive, peaceful and happy 2018!

Happy New Year, my dearest Mary. I’ve been very much offline lately [that ‘lately’ seems to be lasting more than I anticipated, but who knows what 2018 brings! 😉 ] My best wishes to you, my talented friend! May it be a joyful, creative and …lucky year! 🙂

So wonderful to hear from you Marina – thank you for your enthusiasm as always and generous feedback. My wishes for you is that 2018 brings some calm into your life, good health and lots of wonderful creativity.

That’s so great that you’re enjoying using acrylics. For the past few days I’ve been using watercolors – and after so many acrylics, at times I did things that might ‘bite ‘ – like brushing in dark details as a ‘map’ then realizing they’d move when the lighter colors were worked ‘over’ the dark.. no no, lisa – this is watercolor, not acrylic!
Watercolors can sometimes look ‘dead’ where the acrylics sizzle!
Great work!

Gosh, Mary, those plums – how wickedly they smile! The stout wooden shelf and dark background lend your composition a period flavour. How I’d like to reach through time and space to snatch that lone plum from the shelf – Yum!

Hi Christina, thanks very much for your kind feedback. I’m a true beginner with acrylics, one day I think I’m catching on and the next it’s two steps back and figuring out what’s not working. For me that is the fun of this medium, I’ve no doubt that you’ll find your way and achieve what you are after. Thanks – I do appreciate it.

This is so rich and delicious, Mary. I love the colour of plums and you have captured it perfectly. The glass just adds to the glow and gleam of the fruit. The painting really shows how much you are enjoying acrylics.

Wonderful to see you Gallivanta – thank you for your thoughts on read on the painting! I’ve really enjoyed my time with the medium, constant exploration and figuring out the lengths that the medium will go.

Happy to see you again Audrey! Thanks for your kind comment and thoughts. I’ve not painted with watercolor, but have enjoyed this whole experience of working with such a wet (and fast drying) medium. Thanks again ~

Great to see you Hien and thank you so much for your read on the painting. The bowl was like putting the icing on a cake (fun to work out) and the fruit, well those plums came alive with the richness of acrylics. Was a great piece to work on, it taught me a lot. Thanks again and hope you are well – looking forward to seeing your latest photography.

Oh Jill, great to see you and thank you so much for your generous comment. I’m glad you enjoyed this painting, it was great fun experimenting. Hope you are well, I’ve been thinking about you. I’m late in replying to you, I owe you an email. Trying to get back into the swing of things. Thanks again ~

Mary, Bowl of Plums is glorious! You are one talented artist! I like acrylics too, but that’s because I can mix them with fabric medium and paint on my Art Gowns. I just made some autumn leaves using bronze and copper acrylics. I’d love to paint that glass effect you’re so great at. Again, Bowl of Plums is glorious!

Thanks so much Resa – great to hear from you! You are so kind and know how to make my day – the learning is going slow at times, but never frustrating because I can see the possibilities and to be honest it’s very relaxing for me to paint with acrylics (sort of like with drawing in graphite). I’m going over to see your latest creation and let me just say I doesn’t surprise me at all that acrylics is a big part of your creativity!